Here are some of the most upvoted responses:
1.
“Cramping as your uterusgoes back to its pre-pregnancy size.”
“The massage on your stomach to get the placenta out.
I passed out because it hurt so bad.”
u/CM_DO
3.
“The first blowout.
Within the first couple of weeks baby just let loose and cr*p basically exploded everywhere.
u/ZoraTheDucky
4.
“I was not prepared for howpainful my milk coming inwould be.
Id just pushed a kid out my vagina after four days of labour and three hours of pushing.
I thought Id been through it all and was mostly done.”
u/Beginning_Cellist893
6.
“Bleeding for weeks.”
u/giffenola
“Ugh yes.
No periods for nine months, then nine periods worth in one month.”
u/ZarinZi
7.
“Youpass really big clots.
Each birth I passed one the size of my hand a couple days after.”
u/Seesaw-Commercial
8.
“That first poop.”
You have to figure everything out.
There is no manual that matches your personality and the babies.”
u/Kessed
10.
“Haemorrhoids are common, and they may not go away without medical intervention.”
“Not after, but just before: apparentlyyou poop while pushing.
It happened to a friend who had no idea this was a thing.
The nurse just winked at her and cleaned it up.
Neither of us were aware that this is super common.”
“Postpartum hair loss.”
u/Alexia-Greyy
“I second the postpartum hair loss never being mentioned to me!!
My favourite YouTuber had a kid and she was she only one who talked about.”
u/GodzillaPoppins
13.
“Your insides go ‘SLOOSH!’
the first moment you stand up after giving birth.”
u/wqatiol
“I got up to use the bathroom about an hour after giving birth.
u/mom_with_an_attitude
14.
Its deeply uncomfortable.”
“You havea plate-sized wound in your uterusfrom the placenta that takes a long time to heal.”
u/IAmSoUncomfortable
16.
“Babies do not sleep quietly.
My son would snort and flail and squeak.
I felt like a new person!
I couldn’t believe it.”
u/Herself99900
18.
“Postpartum night sweats!
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